Why are there so few discussions on the Internet
about single mothers—particularly single
not married mothers? It turns out there
are a lot of us. A third of children born this
year are to unmarried women in the US.

It seems like there would be more discussion
- positive discussion. Instead I find a lot of
judgmental statements made ABOUT single ("unwed")
mothers and some discussion among single ("divorced")
mothers.

Are the rest of the never married married, just
not talking or what?

I see this discussed a lot — single mothers
or mothers that aren't married — but perhaps
that's because it's my own personal experience.
(I have children and I live with their father,
but we aren't legally married— and I was
raised by a single mother and never knew my father.)
I feel that Bust and Bitch magazines have covered
this and there are a few books on this very topic.
In fact I just published a book — Opting
In: Having A Child Without Losing Yourself — and
discuss this to some extent in there. I think
one of the reasons we don't hear even more is
that there are so many reasons why women are
single mothers — some is by choice and
some not — so I think it's hard to galvanize
this specific demographic and perhaps easier
to mobilize not by the sharedness of single motherhood,
but of motherhood in general.